[wz] we poll closings.xg the state on the screen. inh terms of projections of the race we'll start hotly-contested one.igan, they can project that bama. in the state of wisconsin, it is too all in wisconsin. but president obama is in in texas, nbc news can project that mitt romney iss the winner 29 electoral votes. jected winner is mitt romney. in kansas the projected winner iscoucted winner is president obama. in :unebraskas projec nebraska but other state besides maine that elecdistrict. what this means is that four ofawarded to mitt romney. we're not mak charóyacterization of the second congressional district in nebraska. so only four of the spoken for here in awarding this stromney. he's the projected win moving on to north dakota. in projected

winner is mitakota the projected winner is mitt romn rizonat romney is thely to callearlier poll closings where we have ca projections, pennsylvania is too early to but nbc news is describing great state ofcall. in the great stateohio it istoo close to call. in neighboringiniahe ste of new hampshire, which neighborst is too close to call. in the new jersey unusual circumstances because of the impact of hurri the disruption ofáñ it's too early to call in new jersey, but that should be seen as somewhat of a special case because of the difficult circumstances in that state. one more state we can characterization as too early to call, that is the great state of missouri. we also have one additional call for you today which is different character than the rest of the states. fill in awarded the states.

we have one otherall to make.l call in terms of the contr of the house of tell projection on any specific house race but i'm going to tell y project that overall controlntatives is that it wi byof john republican control in the house of represent those results in residential race the big news is that goes for president obama. wisconsin, olead. colorado too close to call. >> we're getting indications that in some of the counties have run out of ballots accord i have so what does that doe g that ly they run out of bal9llots. can they quickly? they have never had had this problem before in wisconsin that i un >> that would be a good sign fore president. that's a county for the ent. >> that's a great area f president. all along there, that's kind of the russ belt of the.

so seeing not having enough ballots means very good for the democrats. >> colorado in 2008 went for president points. right now colorado is described as too close to call. chris? >> i'm looking at the pattern, rachel. i keep coming across every state the. president w expected to carry, he's at least not losing. it's either too early to call or he's been declared the winner. that includes new mexico. and in all thed swing states from day one, are still in con it'stest right now. our polling has been really good. nobody wants to hear this this. polls are good. and they have proven themselves as where this election would be decided, it's yet to bedecided. that's why it's wonderful you keep saying to people stay in line. because they are the ones who are going to decide this election. line right >> virginia, where it's supposed to close at 7:00, for awhile. >> you look at the too close to call. florida, new and colorado. all too close to call at this you

are i closing times, you have to th let you vote. don't let the fact that we'r the polls are closed let you leave. there, no matter who you're voting for, this is not the time to give up. ght. nothing is going to be decided tonight until it's all decided. no way to pick a winner until we have t in. including new jersey. but we always say thi need to interrupt weave a call to make in the state of new jersey. new jersey as a special case, but nbc news is projected that president obama has won in new jersey. we can also make a call in new jersey in new jersey. the democrat in that race the democratic senator bob m the projected winner in his senate race. we did not know how thiwas going to work out in new jersey in terms of whether we'd be able to talk about this state, but we now have an nbc news projectio for the president. >> this is going to be one of the great tonight. we're talking about a dynamic

reporting the returns, they haven't been ret is continuing through the night. the election. not t count. >> there's g country where to outdo h÷2008. >> who are characters who didn't have enough ballots? >> i'm told they are printing more and rushing them over. they are printing more. >> a lot of that has to do with the hotly-contested seat between tammie baldwin and tommy thompson. he has the best name recognition in wisconsin politics. connect eded to the bush administration and late in the campaign, that's exactly what baldn did. she connected him to bush and especially in the debate they had. and she's a -- she as far as the progressive s elizabeth warren if they both get intosenate. >> one thing that's very clear as we see these lines that are no matter what happens, it underscores what many of us have been saying for months why we should not be cutting back on ea we should not beg up wit i.d.people want to vote country standing in line three

or four or five hours, why are we having law from vf is cle want to vote1í voting base wouldvocate to sit here and say stay in we should be saying open up the booths for longer periods of times. and everything else so this would not people i don't think a person stand ing there for seven hours is an imposter. i would bet they are it actually the person they claim to be. that would be a good point.>>,woing to moment. who told us hang in t we know nothing aboutn campaign right now, is there a waiting? >> what's n realtime is meeting th expectations of both as tight. they believed it was going to be a long night. nobody had any expectation in either09 campaign that these races ose, a couple points 9:00. everybody is buckling down for a long night. >> chuck todd, you lied. we're all very hurt.u told us we wing

by 9:00. >> i think w call to 8cmake which is a senate race call in pennsylvania. in the state of pennsylvania, nbc can project that the winner is the democratic senator bob casey. so:i should take that back you didn't lie to us. but you misled us. all we know by 9:00 is a bunch of senate races. wh know basically nothing about the presidential race at this hour. >> except i think the the south is notáç called. thethern battlegrounds are not called. thatof the l learning big demographic story to be told here that you're seeing. keeping t race so close. the president perhaps doing better with hispanics than four years ago. the fact that you know the southern races aren't called, that isn't what boston wanted to have by 9:00. so they can feel good that ohio and pennsylvania haven't been called either, but we do know pennsylvania that the preside we just wantthere. and l you, some of the little in ohio john yang is in hamilton county. that's the big c it was a bush county iwe don't have a lot of raw vote

in yet. a little bit. but as john yang was telling us in the early vote and that's what this is this is all earlyt county. and the president had a big 16,000-vote that's a big- the president!é to essentially dupur years ago and he did. now again, we don't have the electi+a in. that's what that sre going to do with early vote and what theyaid they were going to be able to do with demographic of the electorate in florida and watching the raw votes, it looks like what they thought the electorate going to look like. t to extra we did see bob . that turned out to be a tough a ton of money against him. also see bill nelson pul florida. and missouri which is claire mccaskill versus todd akin. maybe is just too weird because todd akin is case. but missouri isn't called yet either. do those senate dynamics tell

you about whato expect in those does because it was on to the battleground i think and i brought up our senate map here. a lot straight ticket voting in pennsylvania. that's wso it doesn't surprise me there. another clue perhaps to what's going on in new hampshire, the a open was close. they were h a little bit there. so add that to your clues. ones. oee way, oenate race there's going to be lot of drop off vote meaning think of it as this suburbs, republicans going to vote for claire mccaskill. i'll v9ogote for the presidential and skip the race. al reason his race in 2008 was so lot ofted for the pr race. vote drop off in the total senat six-figure drop off in there. and that itç:ter. if they were forced to choose they may have said i'm get something out fa expect nelson couplead of the president. that's interesting to follow. it's a little cl. nelson can win and

jazz. moment. $y we have a big call to make izn a big state. he t pennsylvania is president obama. described as sylvania was too early to call but it wabama or that president obama had there. now we're looking at the dynamics in terms of what just closed at states that we have anr for the pres michigan going to the president. but wisconsin also has 9shotly-watched senate s a y-watched senate race. these states mial, but they are senate battlegrounds. let's go to alex for more that. n inin north dak heidi heitkamp in a tight race. retirement. if the republicans pick it up it dynamics happens at the top of the ticket.y to call with 1% of the votes in. oud tininrich. on to wisconsin, as mentioned, a really interesting race there. the machine tpmhat scott on to texas, ted cruz goes e to r. will bedu a interesting to see how th np iz-n gill brand is the projected winner. michigan debbi stabenow holds on.

on to minness the project ed incumbent. asso. heds winner.avoriteis season thi close too close to winona. it it will be because l in that state.nebraskaf too clo6ree,4% going on there. >> there's a lns out ra slogan of the democrat was "chestnutsenate." is deputy campaign manager for the obamanks for having >> too close to call in ohiof7those all too close? why haven't you been able hose in 2008r?g >> returns are still went into election day with200,úpmargin. in hamton county, we got 5 win ohio. there. we feel good e. florid they thought they put it away. we all. we banked a bunch of early votes.re still in're happy about where we so we just nme in. called missed

a bunch of cheering here. that's how expanding thes to270. th >> the today pennsylvaniabóha tus believe you more t a >> take a virginia. we have felt good about virginia for some time. p look at how is performingndd and> those suburbs around richmond.outperform wthere. and n northernvirgin ing in line. don't take it from us. take it from actual bu about éxvirginia. extremely competitive >> we have long lines, not just in early voting but also g#today. where the pnu the election tonight and do you encouragement or.vplaces that are lines? >>ne. we're working on the ground, all of our volunteers. after the polls closed in norno long everybody had a vote started calling into oth to stay in line encouraging people to get to there they close. we're the groun volunteers to keep people in line, to encoura stay if. you're in line before the poll closed, youy to pcomingor don to a

s just say hypothetically it comes colorado -- >> >> let's say i threshold for recount. half by the w in terms e're not going hypotheticals to recounts one way oreve we'ren goi is race decisively and not be situatdy to dw stay in line and make sure the vote going to make hypotheticals. by the end of the night, this lled and not be in a situation like that. >> thank you."q to they have new all they have to dohe john kerry vote from 2004 else. they are almost there. >> we have aiestuj cutter a lot. closing and closing fast struckch staffers behind stephanie. when you go into these nights on a lot ofiet. but you start up a vibe.d& shift. those look like happy people to x me. >> they got michigan>> michigan andam pennsylvania io north caro florida, new hampshini colorado, which part of the reasons people may are senateraces. which is

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virginia new hampshire and colorado. but in ofrnors races, those are important not just as stand-alone results, but also in terms of what they indicate for the continuing national race. want to run down what we already. in north carolina, bev purdue is the+ democratic governoror reelection. thisés matt mccrory, the republican candidate in north carolina as the winner in north carolina. that means this republican peters projected by nbc news to hold on to his in new hampshire, nbc news winner candidate maggie hassan. john lynch wasrevious democratic governor of new hampshire. in the incumbentvernor jack holding on to his se governor of north dakota is projected by nbc news to also hold on to his seat. daniels isoutgoing it's too close to call be and the democrat john gregg. in west virginia we're looking at a race that's too early to

call. the incumbent democrat is earl tomlin. too early to callcan early to call in the incumbent democrat jay nixon,challenger. we have a state call i the presidential news ise winner in the state of wisconsin. tamron hall hpolling. >> you just this crowd around me we telling us about wisconsin because the next set of information might give us insight. what were votersee f in america? exit pollsunfa the american economic system favors the rich while 40% believes it is fair t now take a look as we deeper. we ask whether the policies would favor the rich middle class or at romney's numberers, 52% believe his poliould favor the middleclass. just 2% think h po comparisone number for obama, 31% say the policies avor the poor while 43% woulhe middle only 10% believe the

from preside wealthy americans. we'll ke an eye on. wisconsin, i lived in illinois, working-class folks. perhaps equality were on their minds and?t we might >> thank you very much. the big news we just announced re, sconsin polls closed 9:00 p.m. at 9:30 p.m. nbc news is projecting that president obama has won the state of wisconsin. this is a state that republicans actually felt t in in part becaus the dem groups to recl governor scott walker in wisconsin after his effort to stavrip union rights in state was successful. they did get that policy overturned. but they were not able to recall scott walker. the republicans had made a big deal o the democratic try fell short. they thought that indicated they would have a great game inerform. >> this is a huge differenc tries. we're seeing this wonderful in hat for a governor's race. this iy=s waiting to see race betweeno. and brown. a different electorate than last year. a lot more people voting. voting for president of the

united states, we have a ionship withody watching right now has a personal feeling about barack obama. one way or the other. you don't have a big personal feeling abou state. and probably not to the senators. probably your mayor if you live in a big city. butpresident that has the emotional contact. you like him, don't like him, you really connect. you want to vote on that election. it's just really democratic. all these special elections and don't convinced that the right thing to do. 19% of the people out elect going to support that voted for scott walker. it was an interesting dynamic. you pointed out correctly that overtook the senate in the recall elections. they won more recalls than republicans did. but wal credit, he dodged a bullet i'm going to run against the recall and he call to make. we have a call to make in an important senate race. in theohio nbcts that sherrod brown has reelection. he's the incumbent democratic the

ohiosi but the senate race, more anybody else in the country. >> not surprising i that case since he knows the electorate. a small point. republicans have lost both of th states of their candidates on the presidential ticket. >> a >> new hampshire, romney has ahome there. he may lose that. he's lost michigan. his own home state. it's something you don't see very often. >> he will probably lose cali too. >> he has a home there too. >> ohio right now the democrats own the russ belt. all the talk about jobs all the bad economy. >> michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin hasig he original plan. >> this terms of wisconsin, some of the best reporting on wisconsin through the whole uprising around the ulmnion stripping and recall effort against scott walker was done by john nick else. familiar with the politics in wisconsin, which has been called for president obama. and also with the politics in

tell us about the wisconsinc÷áibñ win from ohio as we still await the projection of the race there. >> reporter: well, a cheer went up when they heard look looked to be winning wisco because wisconsin happened in 2011. labor and fought hard to be ready for the and they didn't win every place. labor won the senate. they won the ohio bill. but didon all ovestates. those people never went home. they never stopped campaigning. and so very interestiht we see sherrod brown winning in ohio. we seeammy baldwin doing well in the wisconsin senate race. th ese are two people who to the mapor hasthem. i think something real happened and it is affec!kting what's going on now in 2012. >> john nickels, thank you for p the wisconsin senate race. recapping our call our

projection in the senate race. senate race is too early to nbc news is say ing saying that tammy baldwin, the democratic candidate there, is in the lead. the wisconsin race at the presidential level has been called for president obama. i want to bring in fineman to talk about the paul ryan effect onw= his home state of wisconsin and whether hs a chance there with o without him. >> that's a short story. the paul ryan effect wasn and talking to one of key washington tonight just a few minutes ago, he said that paul ryan represent represented was more beloved inside the a phenomenon2%beltway than he was nationally. he questioned wh right choice. i would also point out that ho thought was as a self-described deer hunter catholic, that's how he described himself, that paul ryan would help in theuss belt culturally pennsylvania ohio whole belt that has in which the gan democrats were

often susceptible to an appeal. this is all about the economy. this is all about jobs. the union voice was stronger with those voters it seems. was stronger in the pull of ther unions it was much stronger thanryan was trying to make. toll that pleased. and as i say, the monday morning quarterbacking has already beguhank you for torecap. florida, ohio north carolina virginia, new hamp and colorado too close to call. pennsylvania has been called for president obama at this point. this is msnbc's coverage of the 2012 election. lots more to come. we'll be right back. vkc1ú![clé2&"

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state, but he was a popular elizabeth warren has defeated scott brown and that's a democr senate in massachusetts. inston who is a adviser to the scott brown campaign is a man by the name of eric fehrnstr who also has another horse in the race named mitt chris jansing is joining us from boston. ths far, the overall maring any news from the campaign? >> we're not. not since we have called penn wisconsin. they were feeling very hing we were hearing where romney is believes win this. they say turnout is beating their expectations, bead beatintheir models in key states. they talked panhandle that the lines were sensing a lot of enthusiasm. i think one of the key things that mitt along th and now he was feeling it it emotionally. he's had key staffers around him as he like sue stevens and his son tag with with him. and they still be won. i think the other thing we should point out t]ro you is that

they are all waiting for needles about that. the numbers are not good, but they do believe in the sou let me interrupt you senate race. rays. nbc newsan richard mourdock.eran senator richard lugar in india defeated by a tea party ch i. dick lu gar[$ another republican richard mourdock. he put ore he made unfortunate comments agod'serround pregnancy. but joe heidate has seatig, big democratic pickup in the stack to chris jansing. if we stil have you at romney headquarters in boston we still have a lotow in the presidential race. we hf ti in going in the democratic dbeing seen campaign >> reporter: ato-2reaction to for so. i can only they had the big shere. for ohio. good. they are loo battleground states. they are putting thetion toe of llg no reaction to that.ces yet. >> chris jansing, than we look forwa with more oat(dnecoloraol s tionter rising it as too cthere,

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core again, story of thisg taima campaignlectorate ry=3+r the repubsoexplanation is not going to be sandy, use they are winning independentvoters. they are not winninon-white voter voters. >> chuck todd, thank you for that. just to recap the big senate news i went up fromd authe roommassachuse projecting eliza as the demographic senator from the brown losing his seat tfialana, a seat that the repuan on to if candidate, but richard mourdockd joe donnelly. for more on the meaning of what's going o h we will to the presiat in the state of new winner is president obama. in the esident obama is thection in &ç': chrismatthews? il. this is so close, it's only small go on spendme for those few t other day, yesterday. this is really where he needed to win. it's not over obviously. bu ye was his best prospects and i'm so the senate the way

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the nerd, the one who does her homework. jockl thing and hi one irrelevo do governing. if you look at the indiana race that y n just by independence and democratic lso significant portions of the republican party as one4o other thing, terms of a skree-upor seople really care about the supreme court and thew: prospect of a republican president in the supreme court and having a republican >> prosecuted that case8 against republican senate. elizabeth warn prosecuted that case brilliantly. >> i want to go to jonathan some news about the race in florida specifically.an you tell us?rachel. anybody at inside the obama headquarters. ú but they arey surprisingly t thew# state of florida. they believe that at thtjat theil outstanding votes that have not been counted yet that are in broward and heavily counties. so they believe the late t in heavily for

obama, and that gives them w they see as an stateç2 put jon-ñnk >> brown when he ran. truck and he ran around the state saying i'm the guy. i'm the guy that could go the car commerci next door/d neighbor. through his tenure in the never held one town >> i think whoever is going to be presi5dent savor probably choose another supreme court was -- certainly meant a lot to aem' concerned about massachusetts. i[+ alsohink whenflorida, i spent the last two weekends in floridaol lemonade a lot of people were lem are coming ou i think that again the suppression that triede out and iuse o -- >> florida is still voting. >> people still in line right now. p of massachusetts -- >> huge effort by the down there. i was weeks ag overwhelming. >> and the black churches. >> one other indiana, joe an

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